Reasons for Exploration
What were our 3 reasons for Exploration?
Economic (Money)
Social (People)
Political (Government)
What year was Jamestown settled?
1607
What year was Plymouth settled and where did they settle?
1620
Massachusetts
What form of government is described by the people themselves making and enforcing the laws established?
Self-Government
What are our Three Colonial Regions?
New England (Northern)
Middle
Southern
Our 3 countries that colonized the New World all came across for the same political reason to expand their empires, they did this because they believed what phrase?
More Land= More Power
What reason was Jamestown settled by the English?
Economic, to make the London Company money
What reason was Plymouth settled in the New World?
Religious Freedom/Escape Religious Persecution
What form of government is described by the people electing others to making and enforcing the laws established?
Representative Government
Our New England Colonies mostly made money through ship building, trading and lumber. What geographic characteristics caused this economy for them?
Long winters and short growing seasons
Rocky soil and heavily forested
The country of France sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world, when they arrived they needed a way to make money. How did they make money in the new world?
Fur Trading/Hunting animals for pelts
What cash crop saved Jamestown from failing and who introduced it to the Colony?
Tobacco introduced by John Rolfe
What group of pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony?
Puritans
What colonial government was signed by the pilgrims agreeing to follow al laws created for the good of the colony?
Mayflower Compact
The New England Colonies were mostly settled for what reason?
Religious Freedom/ Escape Religious Persecution
The English colonists came to the new world for what social reason?
Religious Freedom/ Escape Religious Persecution
Where is the colony of Jamestown located?
Virginia, off the James river named after King James
What document was signed establishing the principle of self government in the colonies?
Mayflower Compact
What colonial government is considered the "first written constitution in the Americas", allowing residents to vote without having to be apart of the church
Fundamental orders of Connecticut
The Southern Colonies had long growing seasons as well as flat fertile land leading them to be able to make money which way?
Hint: one of your vocab words
Plantation System where they grow a large amount of cash crops to sell like tobacco and cotton
What original reason did our colonial countries have for discovering the New World. They originally did not know America was where it was, so what desire led them to finding the New World.
Finding a new trade route to Asia
What native American group interacted with the Jamestown Colony and describe their relation ship with the colonists
Powhatans
Rocky relation ship/ negative after john smith left
True or False: The pilgrims intended to land in Massachusetts
False
What colonial government is know as the first representative assembly in the colonies, where citizens of the colony voted on people to pass laws and make decisions for the colony?
Virginia House of Burgesses
What nickname did the middle colonies obtain due to their small farming where they grew wheat and other grains?
Bread Basket